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and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u
and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers...
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hurwitz: currently, city tunnel 1 and city tunnel number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we fi
hurwitz: currently, city tunnel 1 and city tunnel number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work...
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a beautiful summer day in the city of presidents, where just west of the city, the mountain range, home to the famed mt. rushmore. police officer kathleen phillips is on routine patrol when at 7:25 p.m. she hears an emergency call over the police radio. a man has lost consciousness. philip, just blocks away, immediately responds. her dashboard camera rolling. >> please, he's dying. please, dear god. >> i got out of the car as quickly as i could. ran up to see what's going on and saw a man unconscious in the passenger seat. >> 44-year-old jeff seamans driving through south dakota with his family is in full cardiac arrest. >> he looked pretty ashen, gray in color. he wasn't breathing. he was slumped over to the side. >> i need help getting him out of the car. >> his wife patricia is on the phone with 911 as his stepdaughter lilly anxiously looks on. phillips knows she has to act quickly. >> he needed to have chest compressions. i grabbed an arm and tried to pull as hard as i could. i didn't get very far. he was probably about double my size. so i asked his wife for help. >> we need to get
a beautiful summer day in the city of presidents, where just west of the city, the mountain range, home to the famed mt. rushmore. police officer kathleen phillips is on routine patrol when at 7:25 p.m. she hears an emergency call over the police radio. a man has lost consciousness. philip, just blocks away, immediately responds. her dashboard camera rolling. >> please, he's dying. please, dear god. >> i got out of the car as quickly as i could. ran up to see what's going on and saw...
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of los angeles not just the city of l.a. but cities all across the country everywhere there is an occupying decided that our right to free speech no longer exists and that the state on a local level and on a national level use all of the force in its power to take away that constitutional right for many thousands of people who are exercising their right to protest for very legitimate reason because of the jobs crisis because of the student debt crisis and many other issues and so we're fighting on this front to make sure that the protest activities of every single person in this country are protected as they should be and that's really the reason we're fighting this lawsuit and michael if you were there can you set the scene for us what was the raid like really and i mean can you also describe as one of the things that also came up in the lawsuit is how you were treated while you were in detention can you tell us what that was like . sure well first of all one of the first main points in the lawsuit is the fact that the evic
of los angeles not just the city of l.a. but cities all across the country everywhere there is an occupying decided that our right to free speech no longer exists and that the state on a local level and on a national level use all of the force in its power to take away that constitutional right for many thousands of people who are exercising their right to protest for very legitimate reason because of the jobs crisis because of the student debt crisis and many other issues and so we're fighting...
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. >> reporter: it's the city's first snowstorm of the season. many are bracing for more to come. john schriffen, abc news, new york. >> all right, thanks, john. >>> one area of severe weather to keep an eye on. accuweather meteorologist andrew baglini has the latest. good morning, andrew. >> while most of the nation will seem relatively tranquil for the holidays, we're tracking one disturbance that will give us bad weather. eastern texas around the houston area, thunderstorms will pop up. that spreads eastward throughout christmas tuesday. louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, interstates 10 and 20, large hail, damaging wind gusts, torrential downpours, the throat for a tornado. a destructive storm system on this tuesday. the highest threat for tornadoes around new orleans, mobile, interstate 10 northward into the panhandle of florida. definitely be on alert throughout the christmas tuesday. good snow across portions of the plains. >> i hate to see rough weather this time of the year. folks hitting the road and holidays. yeah. >>> let's look at weather from across the country
. >> reporter: it's the city's first snowstorm of the season. many are bracing for more to come. john schriffen, abc news, new york. >> all right, thanks, john. >>> one area of severe weather to keep an eye on. accuweather meteorologist andrew baglini has the latest. good morning, andrew. >> while most of the nation will seem relatively tranquil for the holidays, we're tracking one disturbance that will give us bad weather. eastern texas around the houston area,...
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alleging that the city violated his second amendment rights but in this case it's mostly just about the wrongful arrest and the police really taking away their right to protest at a time you know when the mayor had initially shown his support for them and the city has renewed and passed a resolution supporting occupy l.a. thank you so much for that report r.t. correspondent on the lead now in los angeles. moving on now twas the night before christmas and all through the land plates shoppers fill carts with presents at hand the stockings were hung by the chimney with care and norad said santa would soon be there but before you go looking under that christmas tree check out the special report by r t turns out that high tech toys could be spying on you now so watch this story by our teens christine. it's a bird. it's a plane. no it's actually a drone the a r drone plotter copter two point zero which also happens to be one of the hottest toys of the season. and it doesn't just look like a drone it also acts like one snapping still photos and even recording video people really love the camer
alleging that the city violated his second amendment rights but in this case it's mostly just about the wrongful arrest and the police really taking away their right to protest at a time you know when the mayor had initially shown his support for them and the city has renewed and passed a resolution supporting occupy l.a. thank you so much for that report r.t. correspondent on the lead now in los angeles. moving on now twas the night before christmas and all through the land plates shoppers...
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he and his friend had a hit with their song surf city. he approached torrens with his new business plan. >> i told him not to say anything until i had finished my presentation. >> it was here underneath the statue of tommy trojan on the campus of the university of southern, california where dean torrens was a student studying graphics where they would meet to discuss the bizarre plan to make some fast cash. >> we had done business deals together and this was in my mind another are opportunity. >> did he tell you he thought you were crazy? >> yes. >> and what did you say? >> i said i'm crazy but why don't you you loan me $500 and i won't bother you and let you get back to it your class. >> and gave you more than one check throughout this whole time? >> he gave me three or four. >> keenan used the money to hire help with the kidnapping plan. the first call went to his mother's ex-boyfriend a 42-year-old house painter named john irwin. >> he had fallen on hard times when i was making a lot of money and i set him and his family up with housin
he and his friend had a hit with their song surf city. he approached torrens with his new business plan. >> i told him not to say anything until i had finished my presentation. >> it was here underneath the statue of tommy trojan on the campus of the university of southern, california where dean torrens was a student studying graphics where they would meet to discuss the bizarre plan to make some fast cash. >> we had done business deals together and this was in my mind another...
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citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. >> stahl: like so many musicians before him, the singer/ songwriter named rodriguez came from nowhere. he was born poor in detroit and spent his life poor in detroit. in the late '60s, he cut a couple of records, and they got great reviews but went nowhere. what he didn't know, what no one in america knew, was that halfway around the world in south africa, he was more popular than elvis or the beatles. he'd never been there, and no one there knew anything about him. even when word spread that he had died, his records continued to sell. then, four years
citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. >> stahl: like so many musicians...
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michael bloomberg a great example, he is banning the cuts in new york city. so that and we are talking about, that ideology on the left, the progressive ideology. swatter some of the mifsud are commonly held by today's progress of squawks i've got about five myths that we tend to focus on the first to because those are the big juicy ideas and the bad ideas one is the natural things are good and number two, on the natural things are bad. number three, unchecked science will destroy us. number four, science is only relative any way, and number five, science is on our side. okay. the first one we learn all about them there. we are going to talk mostly about the most famous progressive today, president barack obama and his resume when it comes to science, but just to give you an idea about why these are important, natural things are good. that's behind the organic food movement. the rejection of the organic the modified to. unnatural things are bad. that is the fear of chemical and bpa, the fear of chemistry and the things that are unnatural and pesticides, ferti
michael bloomberg a great example, he is banning the cuts in new york city. so that and we are talking about, that ideology on the left, the progressive ideology. swatter some of the mifsud are commonly held by today's progress of squawks i've got about five myths that we tend to focus on the first to because those are the big juicy ideas and the bad ideas one is the natural things are good and number two, on the natural things are bad. number three, unchecked science will destroy us. number...
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he was instructed to go to a pay phone in carson city, nevada and await yet another call. dean nelson drove out to the gas station with sinatra. >> i kept telling them once we got them on the phone i want you to keep them on the phone as long as you can. >> to phratrace the call. >> they were able to trace the phone from los angeles and he did talk to frank to find out he was safe. they told us then that they wanted 240,000 dollars. >> sinatra was told the next call would come that night at ex-wife nancy a's home in bellaire, california. they chartered a plane back to la. in the coming days they turned the home into an fbi command center. tina who was 15 years old told fox files exclusively about the familiar lace ordeal and what it was like having the fbi living in their home. >> they were so poised and ever polite, but they would not indulge in conversation and how they would jump when the phone would ring. we freeze, they jump. it was one moment to the next. the whole thing was surreal and strange. >> what was frank sinatra like? was he composed, frantic? >> he was calm
he was instructed to go to a pay phone in carson city, nevada and await yet another call. dean nelson drove out to the gas station with sinatra. >> i kept telling them once we got them on the phone i want you to keep them on the phone as long as you can. >> to phratrace the call. >> they were able to trace the phone from los angeles and he did talk to frank to find out he was safe. they told us then that they wanted 240,000 dollars. >> sinatra was told the next call...
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the city closed the pier that is normally a popular spot. in san mateo county a small rock and mudslide closed the highway. a chp was able to clear the road. county officials say that this part of the coast highway is dangerous and extented the rine storms. the rains storms. this is a day that many would rather forget. delays and cancellations were the order of the day. airport officials say arriving flights could be delayed as long as two hours. >> yesterday i got in here at about 4:00. i had been waiting in multiple two-hour lines. after i find out my flight was can -- canceled for four hours i had to wait for another three hours in the customer service line. i didn't get to get to the end of before the booth closed. >> it could last until midnight. for up-to-date information go to the front page of the website, abc7 news. it was not the only form of transportation. these cars are trying to make their way through reno. the roads were closed for avalanche control measures. they could get five feet of snow tonight. highway 80 is closed to co
the city closed the pier that is normally a popular spot. in san mateo county a small rock and mudslide closed the highway. a chp was able to clear the road. county officials say that this part of the coast highway is dangerous and extented the rine storms. the rains storms. this is a day that many would rather forget. delays and cancellations were the order of the day. airport officials say arriving flights could be delayed as long as two hours. >> yesterday i got in here at about 4:00....
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fascinating the way in which this infrastructure we've created has sort of, you know, built itself up on our cities and on our coasts and, you know, brought me right back to square one in terms of piquing my curiosity about how all these systems fit together. not just the internet, but power and aviation and all these large, incredibly complicated things that we depend on so much. >> host: "tubes" is the name of the book, "a journey to the center of the internet," and andrew blum is the author. this is "the communicators" on c-span. >> with a month left in 2012, many publications are putting together their year-end lists of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selections. these nonfiction titles were included in the los angeles public library's best of 2012. salman rushdie recounts his years in hiding following a fatwa issued in 1989 for mr. rushdie's authorship of the novel, "the satanic verses." in "roger williams and the creation of the american soul: church, state and the birth of liberty," john barry recounts the life of the theologian and his though
fascinating the way in which this infrastructure we've created has sort of, you know, built itself up on our cities and on our coasts and, you know, brought me right back to square one in terms of piquing my curiosity about how all these systems fit together. not just the internet, but power and aviation and all these large, incredibly complicated things that we depend on so much. >> host: "tubes" is the name of the book, "a journey to the center of the internet," and...
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the city closed the pier that is normally a popular spot. in san mateo county a small rock and mudslide closed the highway. a chp was able to clear the road. county officials say that this part of the coast highway is dangerous and extented the rine storms. the rains storms. this is a day that many would rather forget. delays and cancellations were the order of the day. airport officials say arriving flights could be delayed as long as two hours. >> yesterday i got in here at about 4:00. i had been waiting in multiple two-hour lines. after i find out my flight was can -- canceled for four hours i had to wait for another three hours in the customer service line. i didn't get to get to the end of before the booth closed. >> it could last until midnight. for up-to-date information go to the front page of the website, abc7 news. it was not the only form of transportation. these cars are trying to make their way through reno. the roads were closed for avalanche control measures. they could get five feet of snow tonight. highway 80 is closed to co
the city closed the pier that is normally a popular spot. in san mateo county a small rock and mudslide closed the highway. a chp was able to clear the road. county officials say that this part of the coast highway is dangerous and extented the rine storms. the rains storms. this is a day that many would rather forget. delays and cancellations were the order of the day. airport officials say arriving flights could be delayed as long as two hours. >> yesterday i got in here at about 4:00....
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i see plenty of people running around new york city trying to buy gifts. another thing for the president and congress to wait until the last minute on fiscal issues that affect every american, gregg and our long-term fiscal health. gregg: are you saying the president is disingenuous and duplicitous which would be novel in politics? >> and certainly in washington, d.c.. all we have to go on is the president's pattern of behavior. over the last four years it has been the same drill every single time. the republicans you would expect they would learn not to be charlie brown racing toward the democrats lucy and the football and yet every time they do. the republicans go in good faith and very ernestly to try to negotiate with the president and in this case boehner has put $800 billion of new revenue on the table. he is willing to meet the president halfway on that. yet the president turns around and gregg, says, no you get nothing for that. he was quoted as saying i get that for free and i'm not going to do anything on spending. gregg: "wall street journal" pa
i see plenty of people running around new york city trying to buy gifts. another thing for the president and congress to wait until the last minute on fiscal issues that affect every american, gregg and our long-term fiscal health. gregg: are you saying the president is disingenuous and duplicitous which would be novel in politics? >> and certainly in washington, d.c.. all we have to go on is the president's pattern of behavior. over the last four years it has been the same drill every...
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citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. or...try kids boxes! [ buzzing ] bye dad. drive safe. k. love you. [ chirping, buzzing continues ] [ horn honks ] [ buzzing continues ] [ male announcer ] the sprint drive first app. blocks and replies to texts while you drive. we can live without the &. visit sprint.com/drive. >> the iowa supreme court has ruled that a woman is apparently too attractive to keep her job. 32-year-old melissa nelson spent a decade working as a dental assistant until she was fired in 2010 claiming she was a threat to her boss' marriage. she sued her boss for gender discrimination. a judge ruled she had no case since she wasn't fired because of her gender, but because she was a threat to family values. the iowa supreme court unbelievably has just upheld that ruling unanimously, 7-0, that bosses can fire employees they see as an
citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. or...try kids boxes! [ buzzing ] bye dad. drive safe. k. love you. [ chirping, buzzing continues ] [ horn honks ] [ buzzing continues ] [ male announcer ] the sprint drive first app. blocks and replies to texts while you drive. we can live without the &....
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she got me involved in all city chorus. she would come on saturdays and pick me up and take me to rehearsals. she would stayed with me during rehearsals and bring me back home. it explodes my heart every time i think about this woman. when i left for high school, i ran into her in the hallway. she asked where i was going to her school. she said there was the duke ellington school of performing arts. i think you should audition. she got the application. together we filled it out. i had never heard of it before. she became the principal of the high school. she was very instrumental in terms of setting me on this course and guiding me into a situation where our would flourish and find my place and purpose. while i was there, one day i was late getting to class. i ran into a girlfriend in the hallway. she said i just heard something you have to listen to. i said i was late and had to get to class. she found a recording of puccini. we went into the practice room and listened all day. we did not eat or go to the bathroom. we woul
she got me involved in all city chorus. she would come on saturdays and pick me up and take me to rehearsals. she would stayed with me during rehearsals and bring me back home. it explodes my heart every time i think about this woman. when i left for high school, i ran into her in the hallway. she asked where i was going to her school. she said there was the duke ellington school of performing arts. i think you should audition. she got the application. together we filled it out. i had never...
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. >> reporter: it's the city's first snowstorm of the season. many are bracing for more to come. >> if you wanted a white christmas, there you go. >>> the gulf coast is even bracing for the worst. >> including some christmas week tornadoes, believe it or not. andrew has the latest now from accuweather. >> while most of the nation will be relatively tranquil for the holidays, we're tracking one disturbance that will give us unsettled weather across portions of the gulf coast. late tonight, the houston area, we'll see thunderstorms popping up, spreading eastward throughout your christmas tuesday. louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, interstates 10 and 20, torrential downpours, the threat for tornadoes. so a very destructive storm system on this saturday. the highest threat for tornadoes we are looking at around new orleans, mobile, right along interstate 10 and the western panhandle of florida. so definitely be on alert throughout christmas tuesday. we're looking for good snow across portions of the plain. >>> here's the rest of your christma
. >> reporter: it's the city's first snowstorm of the season. many are bracing for more to come. >> if you wanted a white christmas, there you go. >>> the gulf coast is even bracing for the worst. >> including some christmas week tornadoes, believe it or not. andrew has the latest now from accuweather. >> while most of the nation will be relatively tranquil for the holidays, we're tracking one disturbance that will give us unsettled weather across portions of...
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invernal, mañana afectar parte del centro, trae esta noche una blanca navidad, para dallas, oklahoma city, donde no están acostumbrado a este tiempo. >>estas tormentas para el sur puede transformarse en tormenta severa. >>la florida con temperaturaes espectaculares, aquí somos la envidia de todo el país, esta tarde 8 grados. >>el frío invade el norte de la nación. para esta noche buena el frío desciende en el norte, temperaturas bajo cero. >>san antonio maxima 73 grados. >>tremendo frío en el norte de la nación. es todo en el tiempo, espero que pasen una feliz navidad, junto a sus seres queridos, besitos para todos. >>eeh, paola. un besito. >>feliz navidad, la navidad es la mejor época delaño. es el momento para decirle a la gente que uno quiere, que lo quiere >>así es, regalo para ilia calderon, nuestras compañera de univisión, que ya se estrenó como mamá, con su pequeña ana >>así es, es una nena preciosa que será tan hermosa como tu y su mamá. >>vamos a verla. >>disfrutando de su nueva faceta como mamá, encontramos a ilia calderon, que hace dos meses vio cumplido su
invernal, mañana afectar parte del centro, trae esta noche una blanca navidad, para dallas, oklahoma city, donde no están acostumbrado a este tiempo. >>estas tormentas para el sur puede transformarse en tormenta severa. >>la florida con temperaturaes espectaculares, aquí somos la envidia de todo el país, esta tarde 8 grados. >>el frío invade el norte de la nación. para esta noche buena el frío desciende en el norte, temperaturas bajo cero. >>san antonio maxima 73...